Fairfield State Hospital - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Several film and television productions have used the facility as a set. The film Man to Man was shot in Kent House in the late 1950s. The feature film Sleepers used the hospital as a setting. Actors on location included Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon. Several scenes used local boys as extras. The film adaptation of The Madman's Tale was to be filmed between October 26, 2007 and January 8, 2008. Due to complications with the cast, production was stopped before anything was filmed on location. An episode of MTV's Fear was shot at the hospital, its identity concealed from the participants. A local newspaper characterized the site as an "attractive nuisance" and suggested that negative impressions about the site created by films and TV series were "misguided".

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